Holy Tango of LiteratureHoly Tango of Literature is a unique and captivating collection mimicking the great writers of literary history. This devilishly witty book has a twist: Each writer's name is rearranged as a title, creating the subject for a parody rendered in the author's style. |
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Contents
MULTICOLORED ARGYLE SEA Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 8 |
HAS B O Basho | 21 |
BANGLES LINGER Allen Ginsberg | 30 |
ELLENS SIAMESE TWIN Tennessee Williams | 37 |
AN EMAIL I A A Milne | 45 |
SKINNY DOMICILE Emily Dickinson | 51 |
YOGA ALUMNAE Maya Angelou | 57 |
DREARY HOT PORK Dorothy Parker | 63 |
DH H D | 69 |
WE LONG BONY DORKS Gwendolyn Brooks | 81 |
WOOLEN LADY Woody Allen | 86 |
DAMMIT DAVE David Mamet | 99 |
Notes on Prosody | 117 |
Common terms and phrases
AMBROSE anagrams apron Betsy better bottle BOWMAN cards chicken coming course darts Dave Dealer dinner don't door Dramatis Personae ELLEN emmis humor Enter ESTRAGON exits eyes face fall fear feel feet follow Francis fucked GEORGE girl hand head hear HOLY TANGO HONEY It's JOHN keep laughing Laura Laze leave light LITERATURE look Lucky MARSHALL MARTHA mean meter Moloko musical never NICK night notes once PAUL Pause play poem poetry poets Pooh R2-D2 Beeps reading remember removes RICHARD RINGO SADLER scene seemed simple sits sleeping song soon sorry sounds stands stay stop sure talking tell Thank That's there's things thought trips true trust turning twin VLADIMIR wait walk watching wonderful wool write you're
Bibliographic information
| Title | Holy Tango of Literature |
| Author | Francis Heaney |
| Illustrated by | Richard Thompson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Emmis Books, 2004 |
| ISBN | 1578601592, 9781578601592 |
| Length | 128 pages |
| Subjects | › › Humor / Form / Limericks & Verse Humor / Form / Parodies Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric |
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